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VMware Works On Mainlining More Linux Kernel Code

10-16-2012, 08:50 AM

Phoronix: VMware Works On Mainlining More Linux Kernel Code

VMware developers continue to work on mainlining more of their Linux kernel code to support their virtualization platform in the name of improving the "out of the box" experience for Linux VM guests. The latest work has been on pushing forward VMCI and VSOCK for the mainline Linux kernel...

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If VMWare can get all of their guest drivers into the kernel then there is no more need to run "vmware-config-tools.pl" and then reboot after every kernel upgrade.

If you run Fedora in a virtual machine (Fedora is unmatched for software development but frankly it's MISERABLE as a daily desktop) this will be especially good because Fedora updates kernels a lot.

If it gets into the kernel then maybe OTHER virtualization solutions can leverage from it.

What I find MOST HILARIOUS about the GNU people and their bizarre quest for intellectual purity is when they say "we don't care about hardware". In that case they should NOT CARE that VMware is proprietary software, because from the point of view of Linux, VMWare IS HARDWARE.

When I purchase my copy of VMWare Workstation, I put it in my HARDWARE budget, because it provides a PLATFORM for an OPERATING SYSTEM and that is what HARDWARE does.

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Hopefully, KVM or VirtualBox can make some use of this... also vmwgfx. VirtualBox has an "OK" 3d acceleration infrastructure already, but VMware's is lightyears ahead of it. I'd much rather that they jump on board the vmwgfx train and figure out how to provide its hypervisor-side interfaces in a similar way to VMware's proprietary hypervisor.